Toward an efficient method of identifying core genes for evolutionary and functional microbial phylogenies.

Microbial community metagenomes and individual microbial genomes are becoming increasingly accessible by means of high-throughput sequencing. Assessing organismal membership within a community is typically performed using one or a few taxonomic marker genes such as the 16S rDNA, and these same genes...

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Main Authors: Nicola Segata, Curtis Huttenhower
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3171473?pdf=render